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fewness

Roget-categorie 103

1. Words expressing abstract relations
1.5. Number
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#103. Fewness

zelfstandig naamwoord

fewness etc. adj. — paucity, small numbersmall quantity etc. 32rarityinfrequency etc. 137handful, manipleminorityexiguity.
[Diminution of number] reductionweeding etc. v. — elimination, sarculation, decimationeradication.

werkwoord

be few etc. adj.. render few etc. adj. — reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, cull, thin, decimate.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

fewscant, scantythin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguousinfrequent etc. 137rari nantes [Lat.]hardly any, scarcely anyto be counted on one's fingersreduced etc. v. — unrepeated.

bijwoord

rarely, here and there.

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